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Brooks Koepka at his hometown PGA tournament for first time in four years

AP photo by Ross D. Franklin / Brooks Koepka lines up a putt on the 16th green of the Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale during the first round of the PGA Tour's Phoenix Open on Feb. 5.
AP photo by Ross D. Franklin / Brooks Koepka lines up a putt on the 16th green of the Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale during the first round of the PGA Tour's Phoenix Open on Feb. 5. AP photo by Ross D. Franklin / Brooks Koepka lines up a putt on the 16th green of the Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale during the first round of the PGA Tour's Phoenix Open on Feb. 5.

By TIM REYNOLDS / The Associated Press 4 min read

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — There are countless comforts of home available for Brooks Koepka this week when he plays the PGA Tour’s Cognizant Classic.

That doesn’t mean everything is necessarily comfortable for him.

His son watched plenty of hockey from the Milan Cortina Olympics over the past week, which means there was quite a bit of hockey playing inside the Koepka home. Evidently, Crew Koepka — in his defense, the kid isn’t even 3 yet — hasn’t exactly mastered the art of stick-handling. And his father learned that the hard way.

“Took a stick to the face the other day at the house, so that was interesting. It’s been a while since that happened. It definitely hurts,” Koepka said. “I feel Jack Hughes and his pain a little bit, but didn’t lose a tooth, thankfully.”

Hughes, after losing some teeth against Canada, scored the game-winning goal for the U.S. men’s hockey team in overtime to deliver Olympic gold Sunday in Italy. Koepka would happily settle for a win this Sunday, in his third tournament since returning to the PGA Tour after nearly four years with the Saudi-funded LIV Golf League.